Word: bremen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conservative British Air Ministry called a raid "of outstanding success." Another night the heavy bombers swung farther east to Karlsruhe, on the upper Rhine, unloaded 200 or more bomb bays 450 miles from home, on one of the Reich's great locomotive-building centers. Still another night, Bremen, one of the targets of the three 1,000-plane raids of early summer, caught it hot & heavy...
...bombers are over the target the ratio is one gun per plane. Damage to anti-aircraft equipment by bombs and blast interference with radio equipment is also a factor. R.A.F. losses through 1941 averaged 10% per raid, on a long series of small raids. The Cologne, Essen, Bremen mass raids, involving between 400 and 1,000 planes, reduced the loss factor to an average of 4% per raid...
...Since March, when U-boat marauding in the western Atlantic grew intense, the R.A.F had blasted a pattern of destruction through German submarine-building cities, seeking to choke off U-boats at their source. Among them were Augsburg and Cologne (diesel engines), Essen (plates and torpedo tubes), Emden and Bremen (assembly yards), Warnemünde (U-boat training base), Wilhelmshaven and St. Nazaire, France (operational bases...
...Nazis were known to have dispersed their U-boat industry throughout the Reich and occupied territory to evade the R.A.F., breaking up such pre-war building centers as Hamburg, Kiel, Bremen. Relentlessly the R.A.F. has searched out new plants and plastered them with explosives...
...R.A.F. lost 271 aircraft in the month's operations over Germany and occupied territory, while the Germans lost only 100 over Britain and western Europe. Though there were only two 1,000-plane raids (on the Ruhr June 1, on Bremen June 25), the Bomber Command was far from idle. It carried through 16 raids on German objectives and 33 on occupied territory, some of them sweeps by 300 or more planes. July got off to a poorer start. Until the shipbuilding port of Wilhelmshaven was attacked last week, German soil had six raid-free days...